Highway to heaven: Russian priest breaks world record with 55-hour hot air balloon flight (IMAGES)

Russian adventurer and Orthodox priest Fedor Konyukhov has once against broken the world record – this time by making the longest hot air balloon flight, staying up in the air for over 55 hours.

Konyukhov and hot air ballooning expert Ivan Menyaylo set out from the Yuzhny airfield in the city of Rybinsk, some 300km north of Moscow, and then flew more than 1,000 kilometers over seven central Russian regions to the south east. They eventually landed in the town of Krasny Kut in the Saratov Region, not far from the Russian border with Kazakhstan.